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Honest opinion
The WN to LN to Anime pipeline was a mistake and it shouldn't have happened at all

@nachomaxo1
Most anime nowadays are Light Novel adaptations ;)

@groudonvert
Wrong
Stuff that started as LNs from the get go have their share of bad but they go traditional publishing route aka pitches and 50/50 chance of being rejected and it requiring some writing experience
Hence why before the medium was known for good stuff like Haruhi,Durarara,Toradora,Baccano,Monogatari,Full Metal Panic,Slice and Wolf and many more
But web novels existed for a bit and were on sites like Narou that I best describe as the Japanese version of Fanfiction
Only thing required is an internet connection and anyone could write on it
In it's own bubble I don't mind the existence of it
However with the anime adaptations of Log Horizon and Mahouka which were from those sites , the floodgates were open one could say since afterwards companies realized they could spam out LNs,Manga and Anime of these internet stories platforms since it's all in one place really and the it was an endless abyss all of these sites are
The not so great summary section of sites like Narou which made it's users use the title as one should've been gone by now too but since no gives a damn of what gets adapted from there and a non existent editorial since these stories to get adaptations in the first place
They were just kept as is even tho prior they'd been rejected on the spot
They'd been rejected too because of the fact it's amateur writing on full display as an official publication and it blending in too much with each other and that's coming from me who hates similarity as a critique
There was bad stuff before but these amateur stories are all imo just become too samey and uninteresting especially with them slapping Isekai in the title and the isekai being a fantasy setting instead of the fact that isekai just means another world which should open up endless possibilities
There's no quality control like at all and it's tarnishing the name of both Light Novels and even sometimes anime at this point cause of the nonexistent barrier to entry these WNs have